
GeForce GTX 1080 and GeForce GTX 690 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce GTX 690
GeForce GTX 1080
16002
GeForce GTX 690
5738
GeForce GTX 1080
GeForce GTX 690
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
Pascal GP104
GK104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2016
May 2012
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin
Two 8-pin
SLI options
+
+
Boost clock speed
1733 MHz
1019 MHz
Core clock speed
1607 MHz
915 MHz
CUDA cores
2560
3072
Floating-point performance
8,873 gflops
2x 3,130 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
16 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
7,200 million
3,540 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
1536
Power consumption (TDP)
180 Watt
300 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
-
Texture fill rate
277.3
234 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5X
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
4 GB (4 GB per GPU) GDDR5
Memory bus width
256 Bit
512-bit (256-bit per GPU)
Memory clock speed
10 GB/s
6008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
384 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, DL-DVI
Two Dual Link DVI-I. One Dual link DVI-D. One Mini-Displayport 1.2
Multi monitor support
+
4 displays
HDMI
+
Yes (via dongle)
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.2
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126
3D Blu-Ray
-
+
3D Gaming
-
+
3D Vision Live
-
+
Ansel
+
-
GPU Boost
3.0
-
VR Ready
+
-